James Wellbeloved Puppy Pouches: Lamb With Rice & Vegetables In Gravy review

1. Lamb 49.6
2. Turkey In Gravy Grain Free 49.6
3. Lamb 48.1
4. Turkey 48.1

All four Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All four sit in Average, held back by carbohydrate and processing even though the meat behind the gravy is real.

• Chicken in the chunk: heart, liver, deboned ground chicken46%
• Lamb in the chunk: trachea, kidney31%Chunk is typically 37.5% of the pouch.
• Brown and white rice4%Both rice types named.
• Dried carrots, dried peas1% eachEach printed with its fresh equivalent, up to 7.3% for the carrots.
• Oils and fatsA broad heading; only linseed oil is named, at 0.25%.
• Minerals, dried beet pulp
• DextroseA simple sugar, in a small quantity.
• Seaweed0.11%Minerals and iodine.
• Cellulose, tomato powderCellulose is a fibre powder, not whole plant fibre.

Vitamin D3 and E with copper, iodine, iron, manganese and zinc at higher doses than the grain free pair.

Chicken outweighs lamb in the chunk, so it is not a chicken-free pouch.

Binder

Brown and white rice, 4%

Pea starch and dried potatoes on the grain free pair.

Chunk share

37.5% of the pouch

42% on the grain free pair.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

35.5%

30% on the grain free pair.

The rice-bound lamb pouch, a touch lighter on protein than its grain free twin.

Four chunk in gravy pouches: two led by turkey and two by a chicken and lamb chunk, each made grain free or with rice. The label states how much of each pouch is chunk, then breaks the chunk into named parts, heart, liver, kidney and necks among them, so the meat percentages describe the chunk, not the pouch.

Calcium converts to 1.39% of dry matter in every recipe. Dextrose, cellulose and an oils and fats heading run through all four.

Price per kilo

£7.80 (RRP)

Pack

12 pouches, 48 pouches

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

995 to 1220 g a day, 1110 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£8.66

You pay a little more than the analysis gives back.